Donna left with Sini at 9:30am to go to the yoga class in Pacific Beach. The class was outdoors in a grassy park above the beach at the foot of Law Street. They estimated more than 100 participants showed up for the 90-minute class. Donna found the class through Meetup.com, a great way to search for local events and group activities.

While Donna was away, I got cracking on a few things I needed to do. It’s been breezy here lately. When our front door is open, a check rod locks it in the open position. There’s a set screw that adjusts the amount of free play in the door when it’s locked open. I wrote about the door rod assembly in this post. Over time, the amount of free play has gradually increased. When it’s windy and the door is open, it can rock back and forth slightly. It isn’t much, but it drives me crazy and I don’t want the door check to become damaged. So yesterday I set up the ladder and adjusted it.

Door check assembly

While I had the ladder out, I set up our hummingbird feeder and our finch feeder.

In the afternoon, Donna had a visitor. Laurie Beth Jones, an author and pickleball player Donna met at the Pacific Beach Recreation Center stopped by. While they were chatting inside, I sat outside and read a book in the sun. I saw an Alpine Coach pull into the park – that makes four of us here now. He was having a little trouble maneuvering into his site because of the way a couple of cars were parked. I walked down to his site and assisted him and his wife so he wouldn’t hit anything.

Since I was up, I took a stroll through the RV park. There are sites located on the west end of the park that have unobstructed views of the bay. These sites cost more than the regular sites – $400 per month more! I saw an interesting rig set up in one of the view sites on the northwest corner of the RV park.

Small travel trailer with a view

I’m not sure who manufactured this small travel trailer. I think it’s new with a retro look – I don’t think it’s a restoration. The people situated it sideways in the site giving them a nice view and lots of room.

In my last post I mentioned a new prescription for high blood pressure I picked up on Friday. I took it for the first time Friday night at bedtime. I slept well and felt good in the morning. Last night I took the medicine at bedtime again. Donna stayed up to watch a TV program. I had the DVR set up to record the Formula One race. Our DISH Network receiver has an auto shut-off feature. If no activity is detected in a certain amount of time, it shuts itself off. I went into the set-up menu and disabled this feature. The problem is, when the receiver shuts down, the satellite dish antenna goes into a sleep mode and loses the satellite signal. When the receiver is turned back on, it takes a few minutes for the satellite dish antenna to acquire the signal again. If I’m trying to record and the receiver shuts down, when the recording time comes and the receiver turns itself back on, there’s no signal to record for a few minutes.

Disabling the auto shut-off in the settings menu doesn’t seem to work. Sometimes, the receiver still turns itself off. Last night, after I had fallen asleep and Donna was getting ready to go to bed, she heard the satellite dish rumble as it went into sleep mode, meaning the receiver had just shut down. She knew this can cause recording problems and also knew that I would be unhappy if the Formula One race didn’t record. So she woke me up to tell me about the issue. I sat up quickly and got out of bed. I started walking to the living room when I suddenly found myself face down on the floor.

I think the blood pressure medication had lowered my blood pressure to a level that I’m not accustomed to. When I got up quickly and started walking, my brain was momentarily starved for blood flow and I collapsed. I did a total face plant. I didn’t pass out. I remember hitting the floor and wondering what that was all about. Then I saw blood dripping on my arm and the floor. I smacked my right cheek bone and forehead. A small cut on my forehead was bleeding profusely. Head wounds always bleed worse than other parts of the body.

Donna brought me a wet wash cloth to clean up and an ice pack. I iced for about twenty minutes and went back to bed. This morning, I’m a little sore and yes, it left a mark.

Ooops – that hurt

A clear, sunny day is forecast today. The weather guessers have pushed back the warming trend a few days. We won’t see highs in the upper 70s until Wednesday, if they’re correct. I’ll kick back and watch the Formula One and Moto GP races and take it easy today. Donna is planning to take a bike ride and then go shopping with my daughter, Shauna.